comes to the content. what mccain s aides are telling me is that what he was suggesting was that he regrets the process, so you can square that circle you know but in any event, there s no question does this make things more partisan and the important thing to underscore brooke, the idea of congressional a congressional stamp on these talks was really bipartisan because republicans were very close to getting a veto-proof majority with democrats on board to pass legislation to tell the president, you ve got to come to congress before this is done. we ve got to either give it an approval or not and now democrats, many of them are backing away because they say, wait a minute this is so partisan it s backfiring. dana thanks very much. thanks brooke. i appreciate it. next ferguson, missouri ferguson, missouri a lot of nerves frayed and because of the violence last night, two police officers they are out of the hospital after being shot last evening, looking for a gunman
to talk to people and cops about what had happened. so john, this is midnight or overnight hours at this point. are we talking dozens of people out and about or about a hundred? i m just trying to picture this. reporter: well you mean when the shooting occurred? yes. yeah i would say less than a hundred. it was probably around 200 more than folks out there but at this point i would say a hundred or less or fewer were out there. and from whomever you re talking to today, what might ferguson look like tonight? what might ferguson look like in the next month? might there be more violence? what are you hearing? yeah well i guess that s the million dollar question. i talked to a couple of activists today and said they might actually not protest tonight, that mr. might be a vigil of some sort. i think out of respect they might hold oven the protest but people in the movement have been staunch the movement will
african-american officer in new mexico penned this open letter specifically to african-american protesters. his name is anwar sanders and said it was, quote, hard for him to sit in silence. let me just read part of this letter that he wrote some time ago. what i think is lost in the raw emotions of ferguson is that we must be careful not to create a deeper chasm between communities of color and law enforcement. the historical skepticism that blacks have of law enforcement has merit but we all have to work together to end institutional racism in america. both sides need to do away with the stereotypes that prohibit us from seeing each other s humanity and officer sanders is joining me again. we keep calling you up, an what because you just i appreciate your voice and your perspective so thank you very much for coming back on the show. no problem. thanks for having me again. you know you wrote this letter to these ferguson protesters last year and can you just tell me in the months
dangerous situation where one might use a firearm instead because, you know that knife gets in you, you re going to potentially die so i see that officers are more reluctant to use real deadly force because they re afraid of the actual backlash which is that s the complete opposite because at the end of the day your goal is to go home to your family. exactly what the attorney general just said in reference to his retired law enforcement brother. anwar, let me get you to react generally. this department of justice report in the wake of ferguson the city and the police department essentially saying police were unfairly targeting african-americans in this community, you know writing tickets, you know were giving them fines just to raise money for the police department and obviously was part was financially motivated. part was just sheer discriminatory. as a police officer, how do the steps work to make sure this kind of discrimination doesn t happen? i don t know. i guess it would b
ask your doctor about xarelto® today. you re watching cnn. i m brooke baldwin. right to ferguson, missouri my colleague don lemon is there for us and he s hearing from community members who are incredibly upset about these attacks, the shooting of these two different police officers. don lemon, tell me what you re